Fuel and energy

STEP Energy Services Ltd. (the “Company” or “STEP”) today announces financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017

Gazprom Neft has successfully completed the placement of its series 001P-02R exchange-traded bonds, with a nominal value of RUB15 billion, and a maturity of seven years. The coupon rate is set at 8.25% per annum, and the coupon period at six months.

Gazpromneft Bitumen Materials, operator of the Gazprom Neft bitumens business, achieved sales of 58,500 tonnes of premium bitumen products in 1H 2017, 40 percent higher than the first six months of 2016.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE:EGY) today reported operational and financial results for the second quarter 2017

Sojitz Corporation has acquired a 66.7% stake in solar power developer Alten RE Devleopments America from parent company Alten Renewable Energy Developments, with the aim of operating a solar power plant in Mexico

Authorities at Rizhao port in China's Shandong province have announced a halt to all imports of Russian anthracite on concerns that banned North Korean supplies were being mixed with Russian cargoes.

Venezuelan state-owned PdV squeaked past a catastrophic debt default this year thanks to an expanding financial lifeline from Russian state-controlled Rosneft.

On August 5, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a loan agreement with the Government of the Republic of Iraq in Baghdad to provide a Japanese ODA loan of up to 21.556 billion yen for the Hartha Thermal Power Station Rehabilitation Project.